Grand Theft Auto IV

[SageInfinite]

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Anybody hunting this week? This game is giving me the NCAA fever

[Brandwin]

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The only thing R* has stated will be the difference is the color. Both will run exactly the same.

Only difference will be Sixaxis with the PS3, and achievements and DLC on the 360.

Yeah but I was saying there is no way they sat on the 360 version for 6 months while they were working on the PS3 version. I am sure they were doing some fine tuning on the 360 version as well.

Walkabout Radio Removed From Final Build:

That kind of sucks, but not a huge deal to me.

Mine's having a midnight release, but I'm too old for that crap! Definitely get it after work on Tuesday though. Ready to tear it up online!

[quote=Complex;2038305544]To the guys above, I understand your situation. But IMO it does not make sense to at any age to be out at midnight to get a game. When you can just drop $5 on it for a pre-order and pick it up at a convenient time.

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Sure it does, see my reason. So it's okay to be out at midnight for other things, but not just a game? What if the convenient time for me is midnight?

[Kashanova]

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no midnight release for me since im pretty sure I can grab it before street date maybe thursday or so

[Brandwin]

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no midnight release for me since im pretty sure I can grab it before street date maybe thursday or so

Wish I could find it early.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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For those trying to get the game early...I would suggest trying Toys 'r us for it's a good possibility they might release the game on Friday. I remember the one where I go to school at released it the friday before it was ACTUALLY supposed to come out.

[WTF]

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Guess who just found it early?

Off to pop it in... be back soon with impressions...

[J-Unit40]

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What?! A full week early! Lucky bastard.

[WTF]

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Nah... I didn't. I just figured I'd be the first ******* to do that.

So get out of your car hoosier... you can't drive down here and play with me, lol.

[J-Unit40]

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Nah... I didn't. I just figured I'd be the first ******* to do that.

So get out of your car hoosier... you can't drive down here and play with me, lol.

Nice one WTF. You punk. LOL

[WTF]

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Now we're going to have all of the posters who dont read my second post and say

OmFG!1!#! YOU GoTZ dA GmAe eARlY?

[Brandwin]

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Knew he was lying.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Microsoft facing GTA IV Disaster

Make, or Break, for the Xbox 360

by: Chris Stead 21/04/2008


Next week the gaming world is going to get a little crazy. GTA IV will hit stores and if the feedback we’ve been getting is anything to go by, just about every one of you is going to be developing a nasty cough, calling in sick, and driving at illegal speeds down to your local retailer to snap the sucker up. And for good reason: it kicks ****. If you want proof we have extensive single player and multiplayer hands-on previews.

As the first simultaneous multi-format release for a GTA game, much of the debate around the title has centred upon which version will be better: Xbox 360 or PS3. At the bottom of this article we’ll link you through to a few compelling arguments for both options which we’re sure you will find interesting, especially those of you thinking of buying a console for the game. But to narrow down billions of forum posts and hundreds of opinion pieces into one sentence, the ultimate question is: does the Xbox 360’s exclusive DLC and superior online service outweigh the console’s renowned reliability issues?

Regardless of where you sit in the console war, the dreaded Red Ring of Death (or RRoD) is an undeniable thorn in Microsoft’s side. We’ll probably never know just how nasty this gaming plague has been but local retailers have been claiming a return rate as high as 30% on the Xbox 360s they’ve sold. Certainly our office, and forums, are filled with victims cursing their luck: with a disturbingly high number of individuals enduring the sudden bricking of their machine on more than one occasion.

There are a few reasons for why this occurs, but the main culprit is the heat generated by the console warping and thus breaking cheap internal components. Heat caused through excessive use.

With that in mind, next week will be more of a torment than a triumph for many unfortunate souls. It’s not too hard to believe that more Xbox 360s will be used for extended periods of time than ever before in the console’s life. (Halo 3 was big, sure, but not as big or as long as GTA IV, and there were fewer consoles around at the time of its release). Which means more Xbox 360s will brick in the space of one week than any other week in its 125 week existence as the systems inability to handle excessive use is put through the ultimate test.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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This is a big concern. Has Microsoft done any preparation at all to deal with a sudden increase in bricked Xbox 360s and extremely irate customers?

Let’s face it, other than waking up without your penis (or your breasts, we guess…), the worst possible nightmare we can think of is waiting two years for GTA IV to finally be released, buying it, taking it home, turning it on and getting ten seconds into the first gunfight when the console goes arse up. If that happens to us, you’ll dead set hear our curses from Pluto. We don’t consider ourselves to be the vengeful types, but we’d still want someone ball on a spike for that!

In fact, we’ll give you a prediction. In the first week that GTA IV goes on sale, there will be a worldwide front page news story about a game retailer critically injured by an irate Xbox 360 consumer somewhere on this planet (#cough# America), who returns his console in anger and is informed to take it up with Microsoft. This is EB Games policy now: don’t talk to us, talk to them. Ouch! No consumer deserves that...

This is the biggest game of the year, possibly any year, and we can’t see any consumer handling a console failure in its first days of release with anything less than outright anger. It’s a catastrophic PR disaster waiting to hit Microsoft and be extension its console’s retailers like an asteroid, and we can only hope the company has made plans to limit the damage to its paying customers.

So what should they do? Microsoft should be promoting a loan system through all the major retailers across the globe. If a user comes in with a faulty Xbox 360, they walk out with a replacement on the spot, leaving the company and the retailer to work out a replacement, or financial compensation, behind the scenes. This can be the only viable option. Microsoft simply cannot risk hundreds of thousands of dead Xbox 360s turning up at the repair shop in the space of a few days while their owners sit around in anger and frustration reading about how other people are enjoying GTA IV.

The press would be catastrophic, not to mention the number of consumers who’d jump ship altogether and go to the PS3. One thing is for sure, if Microsoft and their retailers have not come up with some sort of plan on how to handle

[ThaGenecyst]

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I just PM'd an administrator to give WTF an infraction....



that wasn't nice at all buddy.

[WTF]

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What's up brother? Long time no see.

I'll be picking up a new tv and hopefully some faster internet to play on XBLive w/ you fellas...